What Evin spoke about.

20 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, when we speak about human rights, I cannot accept that silence is still a choice in the Parliament, in our Member States and in the Commission, especially when it comes to the Kurds, whether in Turkey, Iran or Syria. The silence is constant. Right now, while we are debating global human rights, Kurds and other minorities are being slaughtered by Syrian regime forces with the suppo…

20 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)

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Madam President, Venezuela has long faced a deep political and humanitarian crisis rooted in years of authoritarian rule. Nicolás Maduro did not have democratic legitimacy, and yes, he is a dictator. The 2024 elections lacked basic guarantees, and his government has long been responsible for serious human rights violations. But this cannot justify abandoning international law and giving a green li…

20 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Brutal repression against protesters in Iran (debate)

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Mr President, there is no force more powerful than a united people who refuse to kneel. From the streets of Tehran to the plains of Fars, from Kurdistan's mountains to the Baluchistan shores, from Khorasan to Azerbaijan province, the entire country is standing up. This brutal Islamic regime must not be managed, negotiated with or normalised. It must be ended. Casting it into the dustbin of history…

20 Jan

2026

SV Speech

Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. What crazy world do we live in? With AI tools like Grok, the threshold for creating fake nude images with sexual abuse material has effectively been erased. The result is a pandemic of involuntarily sexualised images that spread uncontrollably online. We see that many people have been affected, including politicians, but mainly women and children in our Union.…

18 Dec

2025

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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

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Mr President, it is unacceptable that a handful of powerful online platforms shape what our citizens see, while their algorithms amplify lies, fuel polarisation and distort public debate. The Digital Services Act gives us, yes, the tools to hold them accountable, but without enforcements it is meaningless. It is also crazy that there are people in here from the far right who are defending these pl…

17 Dec

2025

EN Speech

Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, first to the far right MEPs, yes, it is true that we have citizens in Europe that are worried about European democracy right now, but why they are afraid is actually because of you. Please stop crying over us not wanting to cooperate with you. Yes, in a democracy we are all elected, but in democracies we also choose who to cooperate with. Commissioner, frozen funds must s…

17 Dec

2025

EN Speech

Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, let's be absolutely clear. No decisions about Ukraine can be made over the heads of the Ukrainian people. The negotiations where Russia, with support from the United States, demand that Ukraine surrender territory it has defended with extraordinary courage, is shameful. And at the same time, there are calls to weaken Ukraine's military and deny its right to choose its …

16 Dec

2025

EN Speech

Recent developments in Palestine and Lebanon (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, I am tired – tired of cherry picking and tired of hypocrisy. Debate after debate we talk, yet no concrete actions are taken against the Israeli far-right Government. The EU-Israel Association Agreement continues as business as usual after two years of genocide in Gaza. We are told there is a ceasefire. But let's be clear: there is no ceasefire when Palestinians are still …

26 Nov

2025

EN Speech

Escalating repression of the Baha'is in Iran

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Mr President, the horror in Iran continues, yet the world behaves as if nothing has happened, as if the Jina revolution never took place. 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi – Women, Life, Freedom' once echoed across Iran, echoed across Europe, even in this very Parliament. But those words risk being forgotten. Oppression touches every corner of Iran and minorities Baha'is, Kurds, Baloch and others are hit the har…

25 Nov

2025

EN Answer

Protection of minors online (debate)

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Colleague, thank you for the question and it is, of course, a very important question. As we can do offline, we should also be able to do online to safeguard privacy and integrity at the same time as we combat crimes and prevent harmful exposure that our children are exposed to. So if we can do it offline, we should be able to do it online also. There is something called safeguards and we need to …

25 Nov

2025

SV Speech

Protection of minors online (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. The digital world cannot continue to be a lawless wild west. Today, criminal networks and organised crime and terrorism use social media to target and groom children into crime and into terrorism. Many young people are sexually abused, and every day children are bullied, threatened and humiliated online. It destroys young lives and weakens our societies. Onlin…

25 Nov

2025

EN Question

Protection of minors online (debate)

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Thank you very much for taking the question. First and foremost, you claim that you are on the side of children. You claim that parents should have the main responsibility. Nobody is talking about depriving parents of their parenthood – but parents cannot monitor children 24/7. Social media platforms are the modern-day squares, even children's rooms and streets. How do you intend to ensure that ch…

24 Nov

2025

SV Speech

Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (debate)

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24 Nov

2025

SV Speech

Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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23 Oct

2025

EN Speech

Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, the far right continues to read their speaking points as if migration is the evil source of everything. I would actually want to know where your forefathers migrated from to where you live today, that would be very interesting, and then you could continue your narrative. But seriously, what planet do you live on? If you think that rape and gender-based violence increas…

21 Oct

2025

EN Speech

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections (debate)

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Madam President, we face serious challenges to our security and to our fundamental rights. Organised crime is a cancer that poisons our societies and robs our children of a safe and hopeful childhood. We must ensure that the European Union is fully equipped to both prevent and fight these threats. That is why the LIBE Committee has proposed to strengthen Europol, Eurojust and the European Public P…

21 Oct

2025

EN Speech

Composition of committees and delegations

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Mr President, I am asking for the floor in accordance with Rule 10(1), 10(2), 10(3) and 10(4). During the debate on Gaza, Patriot MEP Anders Vistisen was throwing out lies and accusations that I am an Hamas apologist. I have had enough! Demanding an end to the genocide is standing up for international law. Unlike him, I can actually condemn the Israeli far-right government's war crimes and Hamas w…

21 Oct

2025

EN Speech

Changing security landscape and the role of police at the heart of the EU’s internal security strategy (debate)

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Mr President, security isn't just another cost; it is to protect our societies, communities, our homes and our businesses from deep harm – from stopping crimes before they happen to fighting terrorism and safeguarding information. We need strong systems and strong police cooperation as organised criminal gangs operate across borders. Over 70 % of criminal gangs are active in at least three countri…

21 Oct

2025

EN Question

Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

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Colleague, I have a simple question to you: what do you call it when the bombs are falling down on an area? When civilians are being been killed, when civilians are being slaughtered, what do you call it? Do you call it a ceasefire? Do you call it peace? Would you call it what it is: war?…

21 Oct

2025

EN Speech

Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

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Madam President, so much for a peace deal, so much for a ceasefire. The so-called peace deal, ceasefire plan or name it whatever you want is declared – but a few moments pass and the story rewinds once again. In the last two days alone, Israeli airstrikes have resumed, and – once more – innocent Palestinians are paying the price – victims of crimes. The Israeli far-right government has proven to n…

20 Oct

2025

EN Speech

The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, power is not license to abuse. It is a responsibility to uphold rules and fairness, something Google and its peers should have realised by now. Abuse can never be tolerated, not by anyone. Not by individuals, not by states, not by institutions, and certainly not by tech giants who refuse to take responsibility on their own. It always seems that accountability must be forced upon them…

8 Oct

2025

SV Speech

10th anniversary of the detention of jailed Swedish publisher Gui Minhai in China

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Madam President, thank you very much. Ten years ago Gui Minhai lived in freedom. Ten years since he met his loved ones. Ten years since his voice – a voice for freedom of expression – was silenced by the Chinese brutal regime. Gui Minhai's only crime was to publish books and dare to tell things as they are. For that, he has spent a decade behind bars without a fair trial and without consular acces…

8 Oct

2025

EN Speech

EU strategy with regard to Iran’s nuclear threat and the implementation of EU sanctions resulting from the snapback mechanism (debate)

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Madam President, no regime must ever succeed in silencing our voices when we speak out against its crimes and violations of international law and human rights, including those committed by the regime in Tehran. The reimposition of the UN sanctions on Iran is a direct response to Tehran's repeated breaches of its nuclear commitments under the 2015 agreement. The European Union must remain fully eng…

7 Oct

2025

EN Speech

EU political strategy on Latin America (debate)

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Madam President, the European Union's partnership with Latin America has never been more important. As the international order undergoes profound change, our cooperation must become even stronger with like-minded countries – more strategic and more ambitious. I warmly welcome the many new political and economic agreements between our regions, but we must go further. Together, we face common threat…

7 Oct

2025

EN Speech

Situation in Afghanistan: supporting women and communities affected by the recent earthquakes (debate)

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Mr President, we must express our deepest solidarity with all those affected by the devastating earthquakes in Afghanistan, and especially with the brave Afghan women and men working tirelessly in relief efforts. But we have also seen how the cruel restrictions on Afghan women and girls have blocked life-saving aid to half of the population. Even before the earthquake, Afghanistan was already one …